The advancement in technology has helped people so fast that one can watch satellite TV or listen to the radio on a home computer now. The only thing you need is a particular hardware known as PCTV card that are of two kinds. One type needs to be installed in your computer while the other kind is an external hardware that plugs into the computer’s USB port.

There are some cards that use the computer’s structure to decipher satellite signals and also help users enjoy free digital television and radio. Also, there are cards that have in-built processors that help you watch TV in a separate window while the computer runs other programs. Both kinds can be used to receipt Broadband Internet via Satellite. Requests can be made using a telephone connection but data is receipted at a 40MB per second speed via a satellite dish.

To watch satellite TV on your computer you would require a processor that is Pentium II 333 MHz, an operating system like Microsoft Windows 98/ME/2000/XP, as well as the hardware consisting of a sound card, a spare USB slot, and a CD Rom drive. If you are a computer geek you could use a Windows media player, real player, or quick time player apart from the cards, which will take you to the next level of viewing.

The options available are that the computer can be connected directly to a dish by using Hauppauge 3000 or through the internet; or through satellite box (make sure you run an aerial line from the RF output socket of the Digibox to the input aerial socket on a standard PC TV card or USB TV adapter). Direct TV and Dish TV both suggest the use of a connection via their satellite TV receiver box as ideal.

With a computer cum TV-Radio one can alternately watch regular TV, a movie, or sports, and also enjoy music while writing, mailing, telewebbing, or surfing the Internet. There are amazing options that one can download and also record favorite programs, and music.